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Where did the Dutch Becker family come from? What is the Dutch Becker family crest and coat of arms? When did the Becker family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Becker family history?

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Bakker, Becker, de Bakker, Bekere, de Becker and others.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Becker Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century


  • Jochem Becker, aged 38, landed in New York in 1654
  • Jan Jurrianse Becker, who landed in New York in 1663

Becker Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Harts Henrig Becker, who arrived in New York in 1709
  • Friederich Becker, who arrived in New Jersey in 1709
  • Albert Becker, who arrived in New York in 1709
  • Anna Cath Becker, who arrived in New York in 1709
  • Gerhard Becker, who landed in America in 1709


Becker Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • Elizabeth Becker, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1802
  • Eliz Becker, aged 48, landed in Pennsylvania in 1804
  • I C Becker, aged 24, landed in Pennsylvania in 1804
  • Daniel Becker, who landed in Charleston, SC in 1827
  • Hans Becker, who arrived in Charleston, SC in 1834


Becker Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century


  • Wilhelmina Becker, aged 8, arrived in New York, NY in 1901

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  • Walter Becker (b. 1950), American songwriter, rock musician and producer
  • Gary Stanley Becker (b. 1932), American Economist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992
  • John "Joseph" Becker (1886-1961), American composer
  • George Joseph Becker (b. 1908), American educator
  • Rex Louis Becker (b. 1913), American architect
  • Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945), American historian
  • George Ferdinand Becker (1847-1919), American geologist
  • Rex Becker, American Architect
  • Ernest Becker (1924-1974), American cultural anthropologist awarded the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
  • Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796-1846), German classical archaeologist

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  • Becker Story by Dorothy Elaine Hackman Grace.
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  1. Gritzner, M. Handbuch der heraldischen Terminologie in zwölf Zungen. Nürnberg: 1890. Print.
  2. Kapff, Rudolf. Schwäbische Geschlechtsnamen. Stuttgart: Verlag Silberburg, 1927. Print.
  3. Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
  4. Browning, Charles H. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
  5. Götze, Alfred. Familiennamen im badischen Oberland. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1918. Print.
  6. Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8).
  7. Kneschke, Dr. Ernest Heinrich. Neues allgemeines Deutsches Adels-Lexicon 9 Volumes New General German Aristocracy Lexicon. Leipzig: Friedrich Voigt, 1859. Print.
  8. Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
  9. Bentley, Elizabeth P. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York 1820-1829. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999. Print.
  10. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
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The Becker Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Becker Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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